st: RE: Graphing Frustrations

After much trial and error I have resolved my graphing problem. I'm
unsure if this is a bug or just my misunderstanding however, the reason
I could not get Stata to produce a box graph was my data labels. I had
labeled the missing values .a "missing" .b "N/A". Producing a data set
with out the missing value labels allows me to produce box graphs.
Additionally labeling non missing values gave me no problems, and I
could produce box graphs. Can anyone confirm this bug?

BH

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:40 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

Sorry, but I get a box plot for a replication
of these data. I'm using
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Benjamin Hulley

- drinkalc - was in fact a poor example of my problem so I
will use -
oasm_agg - and I apologize for the mixing up graph and bar
charts. I
am most interested in a box plot, though I have the same
problem for
bar graphs. Here are the results of trying to produce a
box plot of
oasm_agg followed by a tabulation of the same variable.
Again, using
the precursor data sets I was successfully able to produce
a box plot
of oasm_agg (the only changes to oasm_agg between the two files are
labeling its missing values and relabeling the variable itself)
. graph box oasm_agg
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r(198);
. tab oasm_agg
OASM |
aggression |
score | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
0 | 546 53.48 53.48
1 | 80 7.84 61.31